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A slim crowd by Ground Assault standards, but 7 PAX did the thing this morning, putting in miles in Belmont.  Anchorman and Dr. Seuss rucked, while the rest of us hit The Loops.  YHC found a place to add a little distance on the route to hit the magic number of 5 miles, but while out on the course, made an early turn and ended up about a half mile short of where we were supposed to be.  We improvised.  Pockets and Gavel had it right all along though, as they came prepared.

Announcements:

• 4/29 – Convergence – Midoriyama @ 0700
• 4/19 – 2nd F Lunch – Papas & Beer in Dallas
• 5/6 – Lake Wylie Ruck CSAUP – 4 Man Teams

Prayer Requests:

• Termite’s brother
• YHC’s mom and dad

Always good to get out there.  Keep pushing.

Yabba Dabba Doo

Easter Monday started off right for 10 HIM’s who joined me in the Gloom at The Sandlot – including one FNG!  This was advertised as a “Shortsale style” workout because it was very loosely reminiscent of the QvQ champion’s final-round victory beatdown.  Sorry (cough–not sorry Whoopee) if any PAX were mistakenly expecting Shortsale to be the actual Q.

With an FNG in attendance, started off with a proper disclaimer then went right into a standard warmup of SSH, Hillbilly Walkers, Perfect Form Merkins, (all 10xIC) and 5 burpees OYO.  Then recited the 5 core principles and counted off before we moseyed to the parking lot at Martha’s House where — surprise! — we found a pile of Easter eggs spread out in a couple of parking spaces and plastic buckets near islands on opposite ends of the eggs.  We circled up, split into 2 teams. Each team chose an egg and did the exercise (reps were per PAX, not per team) and then bunny-hopped to put the egg into their bucket.
10 perfect form merkins
10 reverse lunges
10 burpees
10 star crunches
25 Bobby Hurleys
25 mountain climbers
25 Makhtar Ndiaye’s (according to JJ, don’t ever forget where he’s from – was it Senegal??)
25 shoulder taps
25 of something I can’t remember
50 flutter kicks
50 side straddle hops
50 seal jacks
50 American hammers

Rinse and repeat until 0612.   Each team completed 23 or 24 exercises – more than I had expected – but good thing there were over 50 total eggs.  Unlike Shortsale’s final QvQ performance, there were no beers or gift cards for the winning team, so we moseyed back to the flag for 20 seconds of mountain climbers until time for Pledge and COT.

Announcements:
Time Laps at WWC May 19.  See Slack or Flintstone.
2nd F lunch at Papas and Beer in Dallas next Wednesday 4/19.
Convergence at Midoriyama 4/29.

Prayers:
Virus’s daughter having heart surgery
Flintstone’s mom and Flintstone’s dad
Fountainhead’s brother-in-law

Last but not least, warm welcome to Winehouse!

Privileged to lead this fine group of HIM’s this morning.
 – Nutria

Halfpipe was cooking this morning. Roscoe got there early. I started to run but quickly switched to ruck and Linus came in hot. We probably made 6 laps together but Roscoe had some EC and pushed the rock. Lots of problems were solved this morning so all you fartsackers can rest easy-the world is a safer place because of us…at least for now.

Whoopee

Gather | Pledge | Warm Up | Thang

Lawnmowers x 20
Chest Press x 20
Curls x 20
Merkins x 20
LBCs x 20
American Hammers x 20
Dips x 20
Derkins x 20
Burpies x 5

Around the world as we walk to light, reverse and reverse.

Lawnmowers x 20
Chest Press x 20
Curls x 20
Merkins x 20
LBCs x 20
American Hammers x 20
Arm Extensions x 10
Halos x 10
Dips x 20
Derkins x 20
Burpies x 5

Around the world as we walk to light, reverse and reverse.

15 minutes of burpies – nonstop, full force, maximum exertion.

Another light crowd. It’s either spring break, the pushing rock’s challenge is over or I don’t bring a hard enough beating. Either way 7 total to get work done. This was Fountain Heads first bootcamp hopefully he enjoyed? This is what we did.

Warmup:
SSH ic 15
Gravel pickers ic 15
Squats OYO 20

Mosey around parking lot.

Partner up for Ab Dora
100 big boys
Run loop in parking lot
200 LBCs
Run
300 flutter kicks
Run

Mosey to truck for blocks

3 man teams rotate work
1st set – Rifle carry blocks partners CDD and squats, rotate
2nd set – Karaoke while partners curl w/ blocks and calf raises, rotate
3rd set – Nur while partners chest press w/ block and dying cockroaches, rotate
4th set – bear crawl while partners merkin and Freddie Mercury’s

11’s – squat and CDD

5 minutes left for Mary. Great work by all.

Announcements:

2nd F lunch 19th
Convergence 29th at Midoriyama
Time laps 5-19 see Flintstone

Prayers/Praises:

Pilgrims Progress friend Bryan is out of hospital
Tigers mom
Flintstone dad
Tooth Fairy’s daughter thriving
Huckleberry
Charlie Ward meal train see Stinky Bird post on slack.

Pleasure to lead this chilly morning.

YHC prayed for all.

Gavel

Warm up and Pledge.

Jump right into a 4 block muscle buster.

Squat, Curl, Press x 20 w/ Kettle bell
LBC’s x 20
Merkins x 20
Arm Extentions 10 & 10 Halos

4 Rounds

Squats/Lunges x 20
Curls x 20 w/ Kettle bell
Around the World 10 each way
Flutterkicks

4 Rounds

Masters inspired Workout…

Who’s won the Masters the most? Jack Nicklaus… how did Jack exercise? Who knows, not much on record… so who’s won the Masters the 2nd most? Tiger… how did does Tiger exercise? Run, lift, run… Here we go!

Warm up:

• Side straddle hops
• Hill Billies
• Squats
• Merkins
• Gravel pickers

Mosey to Martha

• Mosey Around track

M-A-S-T-E-R-S (2x)

• Merkins/Mexican Jumping Squats – 25
• Alarm Clock/Alligator Merkins – 25/ across parking lot
• Squats/Smurf Jacks – 25
• Twinkle Toes or Tie Fighter – 25/across parking lot
• El Capitan (Lunge with hands on ground) – across parking lot
• Reverse lunge/Reverse Crunch – 25
• Side straddle hops/Step Ups – 25

Picnic shelter:

• Step ups
• Dyeing Cockroach
• Declined Merkin

• Mosey Around track then back to the Sandlot

I have to give it to this special Him. When you give this Him a challenge, he will take it. Mayor wore his bikini camo boxers to work out in the Gloom.  Gotta Show to Know! Freight took the Gashouse and I took PainLab for a mossy down the nature trail. We rifle carried our coupons down the trail, switched to curls up the hill. Stopped at the benches for step ups and triceps dips. Continued to the picnic table around back for some shelter to set-up camp  to work while it rained. There we did a series of cores for 50 seconds with 10 second transition; Starfish crunch, baby makers, heel to Heaven, LBC’s, rev-LBC’s, Obliques, American hammers, Spidermans. 1 min rest. Next set: sumo squats, high knees, overhead press w/coupon, merkins, Peter Parkers, 1 min rest. Burpees followed by Moroccan nightclubs. Rinse & Repeat both sets.  From the sound of the grunts and groans, it was a challenging workout for some. We marched back to meet up with Gashouse just in time for the bell. Good turnout considering the rain.

Good work men!